The night before the Bersih 5 rally in 2016, Maria Chin Abdullah, then chairman of Bersih 2.0, was arrested under the Security Offences (Spe­cial Measures) Act 2012, known as Sosma.

With recurrent abuse of the NSA, the courts should now consider examining whether an order of preventive detention is actually preventative or punitive.

While the new restrictions on firearms have broad support, new police powers to crack down on some protests were criticized ...

Australia's most populous state on Wednesday passed sweeping new gun and anti-terror rules following the mass shooting on ...

Since the shootings on December 14 at Bondi Beach, Labor governments have introduced a barrage of anti-democratic legislation ...

A week before Christmas—as so many had already begun to tune out the news and focus on holiday plans—the House passed two ...

PRESS RELEASE The illegal and unauthorized alterations made to Nigeria’s tax legislation after passage by the National ...

On Monday, the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) recalled its parliament to debate a raft of new laws such as banning ...

Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the Naija News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Sunday, 21st ...

Australia's most populous state on Wednesday passed sweeping new gun and anti-terror laws following the recent mass shooting ...

The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has called for immediate suspension of the Tinubu administration’s draconian tax laws, ...

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